The Blogging Sisters page is a collection of blog reflections written by young women religious.
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December 7, 2016
Mystics & Prophets: What Are We Waiting For?: In my life and in my ministry, I often engage individuals and groups in conversation about their hopes and dreams for moving their lives an...
August 6, 2016
Mystics & Prophets: Interwoven Networks: I participated in the Sisters of St. Joseph federation event in early July. It was a great celebration and an opportunity to connect with ...
July 1, 2016
Hello friends! This post is the first in what will likely be a few posts about Marianist women throughout history. Lately, Sr. Caitlin and I have been doing a lot of reading about Marianist History, especially about some Marianist women–two in particular– Marie Therese de Lamourous (who helped found the Bordeaux sodality with Fr. Chaminade) and Adele de Batz de Tranquelleon (foundress of the Daughters of Mary). As we keep learning cool stuff, it seems important to share.
June 26, 2016
Sometimes, I get so caught up in what I am doing day-to-day that I forget the reasons I am living like this. Somehow, this un-ordinary life of living in community with adult women, praying and going to mass every day, and dedicating my time to serving others and serving God has become my new normal. I have a routine I am used to and I am not in a state of transition anymore. What seemed like an odd way to live at first became exciting once I started living the life with passion, and has now moved to a more stable existence.
June 1, 2016
“When you Sisters are here, the bathrooms look great!”
I feel so proud of this fact. When the Marianist Sisters show up, bathrooms are cleaned for women and children to use, perhaps for the first time in many days or weeks.
May 31, 2016
Growing up, gardening was always a chore. My mom loves to garden and has always taken special care with her flowers. Our entire backyard doesn't even have grass. Piece by piece, my mom has transformed it into her little oasis. She tried to get my sisters and I involved at different times in our lives, to pass on the gardening gene and get some help with weeding. But I always saw it as an unpleasant task. I never quite understood how my mom could enjoy working in her garden for hours on a hot, sunny Saturday when she could be enjoying the pool or a good book.
May 14, 2016
First of all…sorry for our delay in postings. Sometimes we get caught up in our typical Novitiate things and all of a sudden we find ourselves saying “Oh yeah…our blog…who’s turn is it?” Apologies, friends!
May 13, 2016
Mystics & Prophets: Pentecost – Spirit Filled Lives: We celebrate Pentecost each year as an invitation to all of us to lead spirit-filled lives. This season is particularly important for tho...
May 6, 2016
I've been hiking a lot recently, it helps me to clear my mind and pray. I've learned that being in silence with God does not have to be motionless.
Below are some pictures and poems from my hikes in the past couple weeks.
April 30, 2016
Mystics & Prophets: MORE Weekend: The Sisters of St Joseph Vocation Team is inviting women interested in religious life to join us for a weekend event June 24-26, 2016 in St....
April 20, 2016
As a child, my family would go to our Nana and Papa's house every summer for a whole week. They lived on a lake with a small beach, so there was plenty to keep us busy outside. But on rainy days, we had to make do with our imaginations and what handful of toys our grandparents had. My sister and I spent hours pretending the basement stairs were in fact bunks in an orphanage that made us scrub the floors like the one in the movie Annie. The springy mattresses in our bedroom made perfect boats.
April 2, 2016
Mystics & Prophets: Summer Sisters - An Invitation: Summer Sisters is an idea that we have been kicking around for a few years. The idea is to open our hearts and our homes to one another over...
March 20, 2016
We stand at the cusp of Holy Week, a most sacred, emotionally exhausting time of entering into the last days of Jesus’ life. On Wednesday I had the unique opportunity to accompany a woman, I’ll call her Lupe, and her 8 year old son, I’ll call him Carlos, otherwise anonymous travelers on their pilgrim journeys.
March 13, 2016
“In accordance with their objectives, both [Marianist] orders aim at raising their respective members to the summit of Christian perfection, which is the most perfect possible resemblance to Jesus Christ, the Divine Model. The orders invite their members to follow the Savior, who was poor, chaste, and obedient even unto his death on the cross, and to do so by obliging themselves with the exalted holiness of vows to poverty, virginal chastity, and evangelical obedience.” from Letter to the Retreat Masters of 1839 by William Joseph Chaminade
March 12, 2016
“The church is Christ’s true body insofar as it is a discipline, that is, a way of inscribing bodies into certain practices. It is not relegated to some ghostly interior realm of the soul as separable from bodily practices—gathering, feeding, judging, reconciling” from Torture and Eucharist by William Cavanaugh
March 12, 2016
Mystics & Prophets: Eating Matters in Our Common Home: Lent is traditionally a time when we "give up" some particular food as a spiritual practice. Meatless Fridays, and giving up cho...